Quotes About Language

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

God used words to create this planet, so be careful with them.

If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

Theist and atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

The man who first pronounced the barbarous word God ought to have been immediately destroyed.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

If God is male, then the male is God.

The God that can be named is not God.

Silence is the only language god speaks.

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

Whatever thou sayest of God is untrue.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

I know not what you mean by God; the word God is to me a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.